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Ahead of a forthcoming contempt vote in the House against AG Barr and Commerce Secy Ross re: their failure to respond to congressional subpoenas on census materials, Barr asks @SpeakerPelosi to reconsider.
documentcloud.org/documents/6205…
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Lawmakers are voting now on a resolution to hold Barr and Ross in contempt and as expected, with a few minutes to go before a final tally, it is breaking quite evenly down party lines.
BREAKING: The House has voted in favor of finding Attorney General Barr and Secretary of Commerce Ross in contempt of Congress. Final vote: 230-198.
Story coming up for @CourthouseNews.
In response, the WH releases a statement condemning the vote, saying: "House Democrats know they have no legal right to these documents, but their shameful and cynical politics know no bounds."
Story on today's contempt vote against AG Barr and Secy Ross and more background on what led us here: courthousenews.com/house-votes-to…
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Brandi Buchman
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Mueller probe witness George Aref Nader will face new sex trafficking and child pornography charges at the federal court in Va. today, h/t to @ErinBanco.

Heres my background from the first set of charges Nader faced: courthousenews.com/mueller-witnes…
Confirmed - Nader pleaded not guilty to charges of transporting child pornography and transporting a 14 y/o boy. His trial is set for Sept 30 at the USDC Eastern District of Virginia.
New indictment here: documentcloud.org/documents/6207…
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Story coming up for @CourthouseNews breaking down a bit more about today's indictment and Nader's long history of similar criminal charges.
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Brandi Buchman
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Update on Bijan Rafiekian (aka Bijan Kian) trial here in EDVA. Prosecutors have rested their case, no more witnesses will be called. The defense will introduce their case soon and will ask for a motion to dismiss citing lack of evidence, reasonable doubt.
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Prosecutors asked Judge Trenga to hold off on a ruling until after the jury renders a verdict. He is considering that now on a short recess. This request indicates the govt is worried Trenga is leaning toward tossing the case. If he does, then govt will almost certainly appeal.
Update: Judge Trenga said there are "very substantial issues" with elements of both counts against Kian and things were "very circumstantial and speculative" but "there is evidence," he said and the court will allow the case to proceed.
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At the Kian trial this a.m., we heard testimony from Jim Courtovich, a partner of Sphere Consulting, the company Flynn Intel Group hired to compile a video that they initially said would help private investors better understand why the coup in Turkey happened/Gulen's alleged role
Courtovich said of his first mtg with Ekim Alptekin - the Dutch-Turkish biz man who prosecutors say paid FIG $600K - Ekim was deeply disappointed with what Sphere had done so far. He was expecting Olivia Pope (of the TV show Scandal) Courtovich said.
Ekim told him: "I'm expecting investigations, congressional hearings, stories in the press. I'm getting none of this."
Courtovich said he "almost fell out of his chair."
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Zoe Tillman
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AG Bill Barr and Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi today appealing to her to stop the contempt vote re: the House Oversight subpoena for census-related materials assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6205…
The House has voted 230-198 to hold AG Barr and Commerce Sec. Ross in criminal contempt for not complying with a committee subpoena for materials about the census citizenship question. This is a criminal contempt resolution; the House prev. voted to hold Barr in civil contempt
A civil contempt vote means the House can go to court to sue to enforce its subpoena. A criminal contempt vote means the House makes a referral to DOJ (historically the US attorney's office in DC), which then decides whether to convene a grand jury (extremely unlikely)
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AG Barr has 17 minutes to reply to Cummings offer to call off tomorrow’s contempt vote - rawstory.com/2019/06/ag-bar…
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Illinois Dave🌟🌟🌟
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Let's be clear here, this is what is going on with Barr.
1. As a matter of law, Barr cannot provide Congress with the grand jury information that Democrats just held him in contempt for not turning over to them.
2. Barr can, however, petition the courts to allow release, and the House Democrats have requested he do so. He refused, and this adds to their reasons for the contempt vote. Important to note, he is not required by law to accommodate their request to petition the court.
3. Democrats additionally feel his no-show for their hearing last week adds to their contempt charge. However, they had demanded, against normal order, that he be questioned by two prosecutors. Je did not agree but offered to teach an amicable arrangement.
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⚠️ Beware #Barr’s #propaganda language downplaying Russia’s election interference. He called the attack Russia’s “ATTEMPT” to interfere. And Russia “SOUGHT” to interfere. RUSSIA DID INTERFERE. MASSIVELY. Multiple efforts to compromise Trump & public opinion via WikiLeaks, disinfo
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AG #Barr: "disgusted" by what he's discovered (so-far).
"in all my years, in all my life, I never would have thought [ ] be possible within the halls of these prestigious federal agencies."
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